The best Denholm Elliott’s tv movie movies
We present our ranking of the best Denholm Elliott’s movies. Do you love cinema? Or are you looking for a movie of your favorite actor to watch tonight? Surely you have some to see or that you did not know yet about Denholm Elliott.
Madame Sin
5.7/10
A CIA agent is used as a pawn in an insane woman's plan to steal a Polaris submarine.
Wuthering Heights
7.4/10
Mistreated foundling Heathcliff and his stepsister Catherine fall in love, but when she marries a wealthy man, he becomes obsessed with getting revenge, even well into the next generation.
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
6.7/10
In this Dan Curtis production of the Robert Louis Stevenson classic, Jack Palance stars as Dr. Henry Jekyll, a scientist experimenting to reveal the hidden, dark side of man, who, in the process of his experiment, releases a murderer from within himself.
One Against the Wind
6.8/10
Mary Linden works for the French Red Cross in Occupied France during World War II and helps allied soldiers who have been shot down to escape to the unoccupied side. Her activities are complicated by her high profile and her daughter's love affair with a German officer. Based on the true story.
The Hound of the Baskervilles
6.6/10
Sherlock Holmes comes to the aid of his friend Henry Baskerville, who is under a family curse and menaced by a demonic dog that prowls the bogs near his estate and murders people.
The Signalman
7.6/10
The Signalman is a 1976 BBC television adaptation of "The Signal-Man", an 1866 short story by Charles Dickens. The story was adapted by Andrew Davies as the BBC's sixth Ghost Story for Christmas, with Denholm Elliott starring as the signalman and Bernard Lloyd as the traveller, an unnamed character who acts as a plot device in place of the short story's narrator. It was the first of the series not to be an adaptation of an M.R. James story, and the last adaptation of an existing story. The production was directed by Lawrence Gordon Clark and filmed on the Severn Valley Railway.
Hotel du Lac
7.4/10
Hotel du Lac, a screenplay version of the Booker prize-winning novel by Anita Brookner, starring Anna Massey, was released in 1986 as an episode of the BBC's "Screen Two" series.
Brimstone and Treacle
7.5/10
Produced in 1976 for BBC's Play For Today. Banned for 11 years, and finally broadcast on August 25th, 1987. It was remade, with Denholm Elliot returning to the cast, in 1982.
The Happy Valley
6.1/10
In 1940 Kenya as their country prepares for war, the local aristocratic social set lives a decadent, self-indulgent lifestyle, that leads to murder. The same events were also dramatised in the feature film White Mischief, which was released seven months after the first transmission of The Happy Valley.
The Invincible Mr. Disraeli
7.9/10
The rise of the legendary 19th-century British politician and prime minister Benjamin Disraeli.
Past Caring
8/10
67 year-old Victor is forced to move into an old people's home but he prefers to grow old disgracefully.
The Moon and Sixpence
7.1/10
A staid, dull Englishman abruptly deserts his wife and children to become a painter in the South Seas.
The Holy Terror
8.4/10
A television dramatization based on the life and work of Florence Nightingale. The story, set in 1856, relates the incidents in her life following the war in the Crimea, where she had gained such fame that her name was virtually a household word.
The Crazy Kill
7.4/10
Two escaped convicts hold a couple hostage in their country home.
